Digital Consumer Business Partner Lead - Foods North America

Marketing Digitization Lead

The role is accountable for driving the end to end digitization of marketing in the business unit. This role leads the plan for landing capabilities that power the E2E marketing workflow, consumer engagement, innovation, and marketing performance, including expanding the use of AI and automation, partnering closely with the BU Marketing leaders and Product teams to drive user centricity, and to embed and land the value from Digital & Technology capabilities.

Main point of contact to BU marketing leadership and senior GDT stakeholders; create and execute strategies that leverage digital technologies, AI, and automation to enhance marketing efforts. Own E2E Digital & Technology change roadmap for BU. Partner with business and product owners on adoption and business value realization; ensure alignment of marketing analytics, AI and technology initiatives with business unit objectives. Own collation of status and reporting to senior executives; accountable for the digitization of marketing, leading the E2E Digital & Technology plan for marketing in the business unit on behalf of the BU CDIO. Prioritises and aligns the plan, outcomes and timelines with business unit marketing leadership across products; drives benefits and adoption with the business unit marketing team and products. Drives local stakeholder engagement and feedback prioritisation, advocating for user centricity and continuous improvement; accountable for business unit marketing sign-off and validation of products. Lead business deployment of BU specific or BU tailored products, working closely with deployment team to ensure outcome delivery; acts as first point of contact for BU Marketing leaders and escalation point into GDT, resolving risks, issues and questions. Advocate for the adoption of innovative tools and practices to maintain a competitive edge; suggests opportunities for leverage of AI and Automation to drive productivity, growth or operational effectiveness. Create and implement new processes and governance that improves ways of working for GDT and BU marketing function as it relates to Digital & Technology capabilities.

Necessary Experience & Qualifications : Leading edge / fully operational Change Management experience required. Digital acumen experience delivering digital technologies into large businesses including but not limited to AI Agents, GenAI, Automation, Social Listening, Creative Asset Generation and Review, Workflow Management, Analytics, Content Marketing, Knowledge Management and Data Management. Business acumen understanding of the business unit, marketing, and media. Strong leadership, influencing and stakeholder management skills. Program management to ensure delivery of outcomes across many workstreams. Excellent communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills, especially for partnering C-suite exec leaders.

Pay : The pay range for this position is $141,680 to $212,520. Unilever takes into consideration a wide range of factors that are utilized in making compensation decisions including, but not limited to, skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, qualifications and education, and other business and organizational needs.

Bonus : This position is bonus eligible.

Long-Term Incentive (LTI) : This position is LTI eligible.

Benefits : Unilever employees are eligible to participate in our benefits plan. Should the employee choose to participate, they can choose from a range of benefits to include, but is not limited to, health insurance (including prescription drug, dental, and vision coverage), retirement savings benefits, life insurance and disability benefits, parental leave, sick leave, paid vacation and holidays, as well as access to numerous voluntary benefits. Any coverages for health insurance and retirement benefits will be in accordance with the terms and conditions of the applicable plans and associated governing plan documents.

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